STATE VS. NATION

STATE VS. NATION State, as we know today is a political term, which could be define as an institution that organises and makes countries or nations being governed. We could add to this definition that state as institution is a need of society at a certain stage of development to control and to enforce society into a common will. The state has legitimated the use of force over a given territory to enforce laws. The …

…may become sufficient to join those people toward common goals, interests and a single sovereignty. We could say that there is a unity among those three things. In short, from the social point of view, physical territory is not mandatory for a group of people with aspirations toward sovereignty over a piece of land, example, the Kurd people of Northern Iraq and Turkey, or many groups of nationalists in Europe as the Basques in Spain.